Friends and family have gathered for a crunch time playtest of C.O.V.E.N.. When a horrible thunderstorm hits, everyone’s sucked into the game for real. In the MMORPG, Hope Collins is kidnapped by Buzz and forced to submit to his whims. Her boyfriend, Alden, has to delay his quest of defeating a clan’s prince to save her, but time and circumstance don’t seem to be on his side. Faith Collins is bombarded by strange dreams brought on by Buzz. Her boyfriend, Tavis, learns to dream walk, but can he help break the spell she’s under and save her before she’s lost to him?

C.O.V.E.N. is more than just a game. It’s a whole other world.

PG EXCERPT (TWO EXCERPTS, PICK ONE)

Hope appeared in the middle of what looked to be a homeless

shelter. It wasn’t what she’d pictured back at…

She shook her head and scratched it. Where’d she come from?

Where was it that she wanted to go? Her mind acted like a blank chalkboard

being looked at through a fisheye lens. Writing appeared hazy and

indecipherable on the outer edges of the sphere, but the blackness in the

middle was clean.

Her body tensed, reacted as if she should run. With wide eyes,

she surveyed the area. People on chairs and benches were scattered through the

large room. Broken windows and shattered glass doors at the entrance looked out

upon a gray day. The other way revealed an opening to a courtyard type parking

lot with long carports on the perimeter.

A young, Goth-looking cashier with black hair, white makeup and

piercings in her lips, eyebrows and ears, gaped at her as if she had grown a

pair of horns and sprouted a third eye in the middle of her forehead.

Hope wavered, trying to reconcile what was happening. She knew

her name, knew that she had a family and wanted to be a dancer? But anything

else? “Where am I? How’d…how’d I get here?” Her voice faltered over the

Casey Moss delves into the darker aspects of life in her writing, sometimes basing the stories on reality, sometimes on myth. No matter the path, her stories will take you on a journey from the light-hearted paranormal to dark things unspeakable. What waits around the corner? Come explore…